Just one day after Joule developer Tim Headington received an achievement award from Preservation Dallas, Robert Wilonsky has learned that Headington has begun the process of evicting tenants from a 3-story building that has stood at 1611 Main Street for roughly 130 years.

In 2012, Headington demolished the neighboring Praetorian Building of 1909, one of the city's first skyscrapers. As I wrote here on Tuesday, that alone should have disqualified him, and the Joule, from any preservation award. In light of today's news, Preservation Dallas should demand that the Joule and Headington surrender the prize.

The serial destruction of historic properties is, clearly, incompatible with any serious notion of historic preservation. To suggest otherwise is to conjure an Orwellian universe where words have no meaning and there is no accountability.